Reports

Red Cross Says Access to Victims in Eastern Zaire Crucial if Lives Are to Be Saved: WASHINGTON, December 2, 1996 - Amid growing indications that the large numbers of Zairians, Rwandans and Burundians still unaccounted for in Eastern Zaire…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - The Zairean government and rebels in the far east of the country between them rejected most of the ideas for a multinational military force set up to help refugees in eastern Zaire. After talks in Kinshasa…

From Ghion Hagos ; PANA Staff Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity, Salim Ahmed Salim, held discussions Friday, with Zairian president Mobutu Sese Seko on "promoting lasting peace, security and stability" in…

U N I T E D N A T I O N S Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org This is number 37 in a series of weekly reports from…

GOMA, Zaire (Reuter) - War-torn Central Africa lurched toward fresh conflicts Sunday with regional giants Zaire and Uganda threatening reprisals against each other while renewed fighting in Burundi sent thousands fleeing to safety. In the Zairean capital Kinshasa, information minister Boguo…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 45 on Eastern Zaire (30 November 1996) The Ugandan army has attacked eastern Zaire and captured Kasindi and Virunga Hills, 10km…

(FR) (Column of 50,000 begins crossing border at Gisenyi) (660) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says a column of some 50,000 refugees from the camps in the Bukavu region have begun to…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 44 on Eastern Zaire (29 November 1996) Aid workers report fighting around Minova today. Attempts to help some 40,000 refugees, encountered…

OTTAWA (Reuter) - The international humanitarian mission to central Africa will be approved on Friday at a meeting in Ottawa, Canada announced on Thursday. "We have now achieved an agreement," Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said in a statement, adding…

NAIROBI, Nov 28 (Reuter) - Aid workers on Thursday poured scorn on a Canadian plan to airdrop food to thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees in eastern Zaire, saying the proposal was expensive, dangerous and full of holes. The Zairean government…